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Chaos dans le Parlement à Budapest : les parlementaires du Jobbik ont occupé le siège du président en déployant une banderole « La transmission frauduleuse de la terre hongroise au profit des étrangers : haute trahison ! »

Según un nuevo estudio, bancos y los fondos de jubilación europeos están financiando a la gigante de palma aceitera Wilmar International, que está implicada en el acaparamiento de tierras en Uganda.

ARC2020 is organising a 10-day EU-wide Speakers’ Tour on Landgrabbing in Romania from 21-30 April

Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Dessalegn has denied that the government is forcing tens of thousands of people off their land in order to lease it to foreign investors.

El acaparamiento de tierras se considera, por lo general, una realidad en el Sur Global. Sin embargo, un exhaustivo informe revela que este fenómeno también se está acentuando en Europa.

European companies must invest more in Africa's agricultural sector to keep pace with growing interest from countries such as China and Brazil, the bloc's top farm official said on Wednesday.

A new report from Friends of the Earth finds that the EU is importing the equivalent of 1,212,050 square kilometres to meet its demand for food, contributing to climate change, biodiversity loss and land-grabbing.

A travers la Roumanie, les richesses naturelles sont les proies de convoitises et d’investissements massifs. Comment se présente l’accaparement des terres en Roumanie ?

"Large scale agriculture investment requires a lot of transparency and legal certainty, and that is what is lacking most of the time," he says. "We have seen that large-scale investment coming - I'm not saying that it is wrong, but it should be very clearly covered by countries' legislation.

The Asia-Europe People’s Forum has urged the 51 state leaders of the Asia-Europe Meeting Summit to protect the tenure rights of small-scale food producers and to ensure a more equitable governance of natural resources.

Selon le Parlement européen, la cause de l'escalade de violations des droits de l’Homme au Cambodge est clairement liée à l’accaparement des terres liés aux exportations vers l’Union européenne.

Between 2010 and 2011, the 500 residents of Don Chan Island in central Vientiane were forced off their land to make way for accommodation for delegates such as William Hague and François Hollande.